“The Desire To Live Is Stronger Than The Fear Of Losing The Fight”
A 19 year old girl named Volta is taking a space transit to a nearby solar system to compete in a MMA fight. The passenger ship crashes on a remote planet where deadly alien hunters come to track killer beast for sport. With no chance of rescue a group of 12 survivors must fight their way through The Valley of the T-Rex, man eating vegetation, bubbling sulfur pits, and damp caves with monstrous spiders. This will be the young woman’s most important fight and with no title belt as a reward. Will she and the rest of the group survive before becoming a victim of Planet Prey?
"I had high hopes for this book from the opening section, but by the end it almost didn't matter who survived or not."
Reviewer: Angel for Bookangel.
Volta is a young MMA fighter on her way to a new tournament when the spaceship she is on, crash lands on a planet killing nearly all the passengers and crew, leaving only a dozen survivors. The planet is teeming with not only dangerous lifeforms, but prisoners sent to die and alien hunters keen on the sport of hunting whatever they can. The only choice the survivors have is to try and force their way on to one of the hunter's ships and escape. As they make their way across the planet, they encounter a series of lethal creatures and their numbers are slowly whittled down as they continue to track down one of the hunters while trying to avoid being killed by the planet's denizens.
The book started off well, with the crash killing off all and sundry other than the chosen few, who initially seemed like a good mix of characters. Unfortunately, the initial look at the characters is all you really get for a lot of them as the rest of the story is more about the next way to kill off the next unlucky survivor. Admittedly the ways in which the survivors are picked off one by one is varied to begin with, but by the end, the same threats keep re-occurring. The plot is simple, but with a steady stream of victims who are not that easy to care about, the tension never seems to rise even as their numbers are slowly whittled down. However, the descriptions of the world are fairly vivid and the threats, as they first get described are well realised and you do get the impression of how dangerous this planet actually is. The other interesting note about this book is that the lead protagonist Volta, is there more for a point of view than actually leading the survivors. She is a strong female character, who happily holds her own and I can see how she could be inspired by character like Ellen Ripley, but in the end despite this, she never quite reaches the heights she could have.
I had high hopes for this book from the opening section, but by the end it almost didn't matter who survived or not. Rating:2
Well this kind of takes the air out of the tires a little bit, but I have to say that I really like the title for some reason. Maybe it is my weird tendency to favor anything with alliteration to it, and now that I think about it that is probably it. Still worth a look, though.
I appreciate a good story with a strong female character, and this one is one that would appeal to me. Science fiction and life on other worlds stories will always appeal to a large part of the population and this story is set to please a lot of fans.
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